A post-truth public? Investigating the mechanisms of resistance to factual correction

• In Event: Shaping What People Think and Feel (and Dare to Say)

Brief Overview

Survey experiment:
1. Testing belief in false facts about immigration.
2. Exposing respodents to an authoritative fact-check.
3. Randomly assigning some to see a post-truth comment and others not to.
4. Re-testing belief in the same false facts.

Authors

• Christine Stedtnitz, University of Essex

• John Bartle, University of Essex

• Robert Johns, University of Essex